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Following up to my email from a year ago.... |
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I've been out for several months and getting back to working on Gentoo. |
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I'd like to provide an update on sparc status... |
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On 05/17/15 08:36, Jack Morgan wrote: |
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> All, |
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> I wanted to send out an update on the Sparc arch team status. My overall |
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> plan is to reduce the total number of keywords for sparcto a more |
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> manageable level. I'd like to continue to have sparc be a stable arch |
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> for gentoo for as long as it makes sense. I'm hoping to get some |
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> feedback from the community as to what should be supported and what can |
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> be reduced. |
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We do have some people in the community who are interested in sparc. In |
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fact, we have one kernel developer who would like to get multilib working. |
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In addition, I have two who are interested in helping by being arch |
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testers (AT). |
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> (1) Bugzilla |
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> At the time of writing, here is the bug count for sparc. There is a good |
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> amount of keywording to do here and I'll start working on these in a week. |
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> sparc: total (172), keywordreq (67), stablereq(85) |
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Current count: |
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sparc: total (349), keywordreq (76), stablereq(249) |
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If you are about to drop the last stable keyworded ebuild, please ping |
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me before hand. I will put it to the top of my queue. This is especially |
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true if its part of the system. |
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> (2) Installation (Wiki/Releng) |
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> The documentation is up to date and accurate. Thanks doc team! I |
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> recently did a fresh install so the current iso and stage3 work well. |
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> The stage3 need to be updated because they include perl-18 instead of |
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> perl-20. Otherwise, the install process is stable on my system. |
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We really need an updated ISO and stage tarballs. |
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> (3) Infra |
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> There is one developer machine[1] to use for keyword testing. Please |
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> request access from the contact in you would like a shell account. |
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We still have a system for all to use. |
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> (4) Profiles |
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> (a) systemd support |
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> I tried for several days to get systemd working on sparc. systemd just |
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> seg faulted on boot up. In fact, I had trouble getting udev to start. It |
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> just produced an error "ignoring: Invalid argument error initializing |
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> netlink socket" and didn't start. Since udev didn't start, i was not |
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> able to log in nor ssh (no network interface found). I made the switch |
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> to eudev and eudev started just fine. I'll file a couple of bugs in a |
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> week and go from there. I'll work with the systemd team to resolve these |
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> problems. |
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No update here and not sure of the status as I need to investigate |
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> (b) gnome/kde desktop support |
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> I'd like to propose dropping support for gnome/kde desktop if systemd |
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> isn't supported on sparc. I'm note sure it makes sense long term nor |
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> have developer resources to continue to keyword it. I have a couple of |
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> desktop systems so can test easily but running xfce4 atm. I'm open to |
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> others opinions. |
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I'm going to drop support for all desktops except xfce4. If someone else |
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wants to help out and support another desktop, they are free to join the |
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team and do so. |
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> (c) java support |
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> The java team said they don't have cycles to support sparc. Support |
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> would have to come from the sparc team or the community. Unless someone |
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> steps up to help out with java, I'll propose to drop support on sparc. |
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> Thanks to the java team for helping us know what needs to be done to |
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> support java or not. |
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Support already dropped last year. Thanks java team. |
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> (5) anything else? |
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> Is there anything I missed? Other sections of gentoo? |
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I need to schedule the annual arch team meeting to elect the arch lead. |
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Current members are are listed below. If you are not actively working on |
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sparc, then please update you status. |
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Lead(s) none (No lead election date set) |
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Members |
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Agostino Sarubbo (ago) - Security bugs primarily ) |
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Jeroen Roovers (jer) - ( Porting ) |
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Jack Morgan (jmorgan) - ( Gentoo/SPARC ) |
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Pacho Ramos (Pacho) - ( Gentoo/SPARC ) |
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Mike Frysinger (vapier) - ( Core-only ) |
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Michael Weber (xmw) - ( Gentoo/SPARC ) |
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Mikle Kolyada (Zlogene) - ( Gentoo/SPARC ) |
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> [1]https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Developer_Machines |
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Thanks, |
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Jack Morgan |
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Pub 4096R/761D8E0A 2010-09-13 Jack Morgan <jmorgan@g.o> |
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